(Marcos Claver) Yesterday we ran into Oracle bug 1004056 while coding a module for a customer. I hear people think “Oracle Forms 60 that’s old”. Yes it is but it is a platform still used by a lot of people. The bug is related to the fact that image items are not proper synchronized in a multi recor

(James Murray) IT Week: There has been a lot of concern in the wake of its acquisition spree that certain Oracle applications will be discontinued. Have you done enough to counter these concerns?

(Dratz) “The database is slow, can you add an index?” Anyone who has ever worked on either side of a database has heard or asked this question many times.

In this guide, we will discuss many of the operational costs and resource drains of implementing and managing the Oracle E-Business Suite and discuss how to reduce effort and eliminate errors using a ZeroERROR object migration solution. (R)

(Tom Moore) The organization I work for, the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, recently ported part of a legacy system written in Cobol and running on a Unisys mainframe to a Java/J2EE environment. Our IT team primarily uses open source tools, including Eclipse, Tomcat, and Spring, to write our

(Bob Watkins) In a previous tip, I described how to find gaps in sequences using Oracle’s powerful analytic functions. TechRepublic member Sachin Jayashekhar asked about a related problem in a forum post for the article. This member wanted to know how to find the first and last values of a sequence

Database-Brothers, Inc. (DBI), an industry leading provider of database performance and accountability solutions for Oracle and DB2 LUW, has announced a new version of Brother-WatchDog, a breakthrough software solution designed to capture and record database activities to create immutable audit trai

(Dale Vile) Following the acquisition of PeopleSoft and Siebel Systems, only a short time after PeopleSoft had itself acquired JD Edwards, software giant Oracle became the proud owner of four ERP and three CRM product lines, all originally developed on different platforms and having different toolin

(Steve Callan) Sometimes a programming background can make a task harder than it is when you lose sight of what SQL can do independently of PL/SQL. How often do you find yourself using PL/SQL to loop through records where an update for each record depends on some test or condition? That is certainly

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